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Xandra Bingley
Bio
Xandra Bingley rode and trained horses before she started work at the age of seventeen for MI5. She then worked for the Atlantic Monthly Review in Boston and the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard. Subsequently in London she became a publisher's reader and then a commissioning editor at Jonathan Cape before she started her own literary agency. Her childhood wartime memoir Bertie, May and Mrs Fish was published to great acclaim in 2005. She lives in London.Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and comics. Her work has been published in more than forty-five countries. Her novel The Testaments was a co-winner of the 2019 Booker Prize. Her other works of fiction include Cat’s Eye, finalist for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator’s Award. She lives in Toronto.